Here's a recent report with a different take: http://followthemedia.com/alldigital/rainbow07112007.htm
Mike --- Richard Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a good point. We were a less mobile society > as well -- we > traveled less for business or pleasure, we didn't > move as often. > > There also wasn't the competition to radio. You had > 3 to 6 TV > channels in a city, no video games, no DVD rentals, > no Internet, no > iPods. > > Radio has been marginalized, and in this era of > user-created, > user-controlled content, (recall the Time Magazine > "person of the > year"), the genie won't easily go back into the > bottle. > > Rich Cuff > > On Nov 8, 2007 9:31 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Can I add one more thing? > > > > Recall the creative explosion that characterized > FM radio in the > > late '60s and early '70s. New formats, new ideas, > new approaches > > to "doing radio" came out of that time. The main > difference I see > > between the willingness to push the envelope then > and the rank > > timidity we experience now is something that I'll > use an economic > > regulatory term to describe--"concentration of > control". Simply put, > > we didn't have it then. So we had a great many > more "laboratories" in > > which creative minds could experiment freely. > With a handful of group > > owners tightly controlling what their O&Os and > affiliates do (all in > > the name of preserving the bloody bottom line for > just the next > > quarter), there's no freedom to play around... no > freedom to learn > > from failure...or, to put it succinctly--the > discover a new success. > > > _______________________________________________ > Swprograms mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > or visit the URL shown above. > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
